Bandcamp Fourtheye Collection

[liz]

That album from Khemmis keeps getting better with repeat listens. It's well worth the time to take a listen for most Fourtheye readers.

I haven't listened to a lot of new stuff recently but I do like that. A bit Mastodon like to my ear.

[Kittaan]

That album from Khemmis keeps getting better with repeat listens. It's well worth the time to take a listen for most Fourtheye readers.

Prediction: Their next album will be called Tree. And I'll buy it on name alone.

[UndKeineZwEier]

This is really good and I think people here would actually dig it.

[hellboy]

Bandcamp continues to be awesome. We should continue posting awesome albums to this thread!

Bandcamp, Downloads, Streaming, and the Inescapably Bright Future
In light of a recent report that Apple will soon abandon music downloads (later denied, but undoubtedly containing a certain amount of inevitability), we thought we’d take a moment to update you on the state of Bandcamp’s business and our plans for the future.

Bandcamp grew by 35% last year. Fans pay artists $4.3 million dollars every month using the site, and they buy about 25,000 records a day, which works out to about one every 4 seconds (you can see a real-time feed of those purchases on our desktop home page). Nearly 6 million fans have bought music through Bandcamp (half of whom are younger than 30), and hundreds of thousands of artists have sold music on Bandcamp. Digital album sales on Bandcamp grew 14% in 2015 while dropping 3% industry-wide, track sales grew 11% while dropping 13% industry-wide, vinyl was up 40%, cassettes 49%… even CD sales grew 10% (down 11% industry-wide). Most importantly of all, Bandcamp has been profitable (in the now-quaint revenues-exceed-expenses sense) since 2012.

Subscription-based music streaming,* on the other hand, has yet to prove itself to be a viable model, even after hundreds of millions of investment dollars raised and spent. For our part, we are committed to offering an alternative that we know works. As long as there are fans who care about the welfare of their favorite artists and want to help them keep making music, we will continue to provide that direct connection. And as long as there are fans who want to own, not rent, their music, that is a service we will continue to provide, and that is a model whose benefits we will continue to champion. We have been here since 2008 and we mean to be here in 2028. Thank you!

*Bandcamp is not a download store, and we very much embrace the convenience of streaming. When you buy music on Bandcamp, whether that’s in digital or physical form (30% of sales on Bandcamp are for vinyl and other merchandise), you not only get the pleasure of knowing you’re supporting the artist in a direct and transparent way, you also get instant, unlimited streaming of that music via our free apps for Android and iOS, as well as an optional, high-quality download. Your purchase is about direct support, ownership and access, whether that access takes the form of a stream, download, or both. So please consider joining us in never using “streaming” as shorthand for “subscription-based music.” The former is an inevitable technological shift, the latter is an unproven business model.

[UndKeineZwEier]

I'm really digging this new Nothing album

[petemasterpete]

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[Aurora Melbourne]

Hi, We had a crack at a Tool cover recently.
Please take the time to listen and share it with your closest 50,000 friends

[hellboy]

Time to get this thread going again:

[UndKeineZwEier]

Oh my god, those drums sound fucking awful. Why are they so high in the mix? What the hell?

[tys0n]

I'm digging it through my home theater

[hellboy]

I can't say I really noticed through my headphones. I guess they are a little loud, but not obtrusively so.

[UndKeineZwEier]

The drums are super processed and when that snare starts going on that first track, it just sounds like a fucking click track.

[M0G]

The drums don't sound that bad. Not the highest quality recording job but it's their first release. Good find Hellboy. Very solid.

[hellboy]

I hope this one is up to your lofty standards UKE:

[UndKeineZwEier]

Yeah, that's fine.

[basejumper]

Both of those albums didn't do much for me.
Keep posting and I'll keep trying them out.

[M0G]

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[hellboy]

Thanks for the recommendations M0g - will check these out over the coming days.

[M0G]

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